Re: Session data disappearing

[Gunther Birznieks <gu...@extropia.com>]

By the way, as an alternative suggestion, don't use postgres... use 
Session::File. I seem to recall that Postgres isn't the zippiest medium for 
storing sessions. It turns out plain files are pretty fast for small sets 
of blob data.

At 04:35 PM 10/31/00 +0000, Simon_Wilcox@williamslea.com wrote:

>Hi Chris, welcome on board !
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>       Are you changing data structures e.g. a element in a hash of hashes ?
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>       Apache::Session has documented behaviour where it only writes back 
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>       if the top level variables have changed. If you are changing something
>       deeper it will not be _seen_ as a change.
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>       The recommended approach is to use a timestamp at the top level to 
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>       that something always changes and forces a write.
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>Hi everyone, I'm sure this is a simple problem...
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>Im using Session.pm to track information between httpd requests.
>However, when I store some information in the session, it is gone when I
>try to retrieve it later.  I've noticed the following things:
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>when I tie to the session I use the command Commit = 1, but in my
>error_log, I get the following...
>Commit ineffective with AutoCommit enabled at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Apache/Session/Store/Postgres.pm line 92
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>Then I turned AutoCommit off on my database connection but then I could
>see in my error_log that the commands were being rolled back.
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>I'll try committing the changes to the database next, but then what's
>the point of the Commit = 1 command in the Tie command?? The
>documentation states it has to be like this. Does anyone know what the
>proper way of doing this is?
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>Also, thanks to all who replied to my last post!!!  As you can see I'm
>now up and running with Mod_perl!!!!
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>Chris
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